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saw a bharatnatyam performance by padmashree Malavika Sarukkai yesterday at tagore theatre as a part of an ongoing festival. the performance lasted for about 1.5 hours. there were 6 dances… i enjoyed the first 3 and the last… the rest got a bit too stretched out and boring… but it was surprisingly good. not perfect, but good. today there is a play by Rajat Kapoor (corporate, bheja fry, etc.) titled ‘Hamlet- the Clown Prince’. Am really looking forward to it. Its at 7. Before that there is a lecture by a certain guy called Michael A. Cremo who wrote some book called Forbidden Archaeology. Its about some Vedic Alternative to Darwinism. I think it would be trash. But lets see.

Update: The lecture was indeed trash. The play was absolutely brilliant. It had perversity, tragedy, comedy… all blended fantastically. See it if you get the chance. The dialogues, direction and the screenplay were awesome, the acting spell-binding.

i am 4th from right

me and itika

this one is really blurred but anyway… L to R: ankur, aayush, itika, me, aditi, anuj

am third from left

i have a good horror potential

with egg in my hair… second from left

second from left… behind dixit.

march past

oath taking

batch photo… am in the second row from bottom

some pics during the high jump event:

before the relay, holding the baton

running in the relay race… i am in the left corner of the pic.

before the tug of war

i think this one was for volleyball

me, akanksha, manpreet, itika, ishita, all went to navni’s place yesterday evening… for cooking food and eating it. i was co-hod dessert. here are the pics:

Manpreet reading a novel, and cut veggies on the table.

Navni HOD cooking

Desperate housewives

Ishita looking for dessert recipes

Mushrooms

Itika HOD strawberries

With sincerity and dedication

Navni tasting the iced tea

… aur CR banne ke baad (courtesy aks)

busybees

pasta in making

almost done

ready

nacho salad

white sauce pasta

bhukkad

strawberry hide and seek

dracula

manpreet cutting the cake in heart shape

Basically our menu was: iced tea, nacho salad with salsa sauce, white sauce pasta, strawberry hide and seek cake and fruit cream. There were minor glitches though- tea was slightly less in iced tea, salt a bit on the higher side in pasta, sugar syrup a bit too much on the cake. But overall, it was great.

inspired by what moti told me, about a couple of weeks back, about the debating culture around him, i kind of tried to introduce a similar culture in my insti and we had our first parliamentary style debate today, after college hours. none of us had ever seen this kind of a debate before, so we had some trouble… it was pretty disorganised, i think, and there was way too much hooting and interference by the audience, and even some of the judges (read choops). and it was too predictable. and the rules weren’t clear to all, so it was slightly messy. harsimran spoke really well. unexpectedly well. i was the PM… i could have made a better job out of it. but it was fun nevertheless. am looking forward to the next one.

I used to be a pretty good student in +1 and +2. As in, I had a fairly clear thought process. And it was never a difficulty to think, whether about science or philosophy. But now I cant do simple math, I dont remember anything in physics except mechanics, and I have lost all grasp of logic. Am basically turning into just the kind of doctor I could never respect. Scary. Is that something medicine does to you or is it that I try too little? And thanks to subhabrata’s latest comment, i just remembered my ‘aims’. I cant lose my ambitiousness, that would be sinful. So, I better try harder. If I was good once, I can be good again. Time to take Feynman and Apostol out of my dusty bookshelves.

aargh. i am sick of going on so many college trips. another one is round the corner. to nozit, ludhiana, for volleyball, and i have absolutely no wish to go. but i dont have an option.

Like generally. I am feeling generally blog-gy. And I feel a lot lot better since the last time I blogged. And things have progressed such a lot. I feel grown up. I have friends again, I am much more comfortable with the things around me, I am feeling ambitious again, I have started failing again, etc. etc. I played holi too. It’s all normal. And I have started having dreams again, of Kite-Runner, Plexus, Dennis, 13 B.

Will post some holi, euphoria and sports meet pics soon.